Arguing that a decade of U.N. sanctions have nearly destroyed the Iraqi people, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the veteran pacifist and anti-war advocate, led the formation of a group to oppose U.S. military action against Iraq. The group, a coalition of anti-war and civil action groups called ANSWER urged Americans to "act now to stop war and end racism," and join a march on Washington on April 27 to persuade the Bush administration that Americans are opposed to further military action. "To me it is the worst possible memorial you could have to those who died at the Pentagon and World Trade Center on Sept. 11th is to kill poor people in other countries by the thousands," Clark said. Clark's been in love with Sammy since the Gulf War. In fact, he seems to have a soft spot for all tin-hat dictators. Wonder where he gets his money? Wonder how much of it's written off as charitable donations. Wonder how much of it comes from Iraq - and Saudi Arabia.
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The Madison, Wisconsin, school board president, who attracted criticism when he voted against allowing students to say the Pledge of Allegiance, told fellow board members he would not seek re-election. Sometimes the Good Guys do win. You can take his head off the pike now. They're done playing buzkashi with the rest of him.
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The bodies of 10 firefighters and three civilians were pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center as excavation crews opened up the lobby of one of the collapsed towers. Any one of them would have been worth a couple dozen SneakerBoys and his Dad.
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President Pervez Musharraf ruled out the possibility of handing over any Pakistani national accused of carrying out terrorist attacks to the Indian authorities. President Pervez Musharraf said so at a joint meeting of the Pak National Security Council and federal cabinet. Musharraf stated that action would certainly be taken if credible and satisfactory evidence was provided to Pakistan. The government was ready to try those found involved in the Dec 13 attack on the Indian Parliament. "President Musharraf remarked that Pakistan wants peace, but with honour and dignity," Information Secretary Anwer Mehmood said.
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U.S. and allied military forces are stepping up aerial-reconnaissance flights over Somalia in preparation for raids against al Qaeda terrorist bases there. 100 al Qaeda terrorists were identified recently in Somalia. The terrorists were part of the Islamic rebel group there known as Al-Ittihad Al-Islam. The Mogadishu-based group, known as AIAI, is linked to Somali warlord Hussein Mohammed Aideed and has close ties to al Qaeda. "Somalia will likely be next," said one defense official familiar with defense planning. Golly. Aideed. Who'da thunkit? Told you the Rangers want to go back. They might even be looking forward to dragging his deceased carcass through the streets, though they're really too gentlemanly to actually do that.
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Hamas engineers are developing a new missile called Qassam 3. It can carry 10 kilograms of T.N.T. explosives, and reach a distance of 10 kilometers (about 6 miles). Israeli officials arrested a Hamas activist who was on his way from the Gaza Strip to Saudi Arabia, "to arrange funding for the Qassam missile project," and transfer it to the West Bank. Documents were found on the emissary describing in detail the development process of the missile in the Gaza Strip, those behind these activities, financial costs and the intentions of the command in Gaza to transfer the knowledge and experience to their cohorts the West Bank. How industrious. And how nice of the Saudis to fund such industry. Wonder which charitable organization it was? We should send them a "thank you" card.
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The Jamaican father of Maxwell Smart "Richard Reid" has come to the defence of his son, blaming his own prison life for the events of December 22. "Look at the terrible childhood he had and the broken home he came from," Robin Reid, 51, told The Mirror tabloid. "Look at the father he had. I have spent 18 years in total behind bars. That can't have helped can it? With that kind of childhood, what sort of defence could he put up against lunatic religious fanatics leading him astray?" Cue violin crescendo... Oh, well. Too late now. He's already an attempted crazed killer. Just go back to your own petty thievery and dope dealing, Robin, and we'll take it from here.
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Azerbaijan arrested six members of an Islamic group that was believed to be preparing an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baku. The six included five Azeris and one Ukrainian national. A seventh person, an Uzbek national, was still being sought. The group was also targeting other international organizations in Baku. They were said to be members of a little-known Islamic militant group called Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which reportedly has followers across Central Asia, and also has links to the Islamic militants fighting the Russian army in Chechnya. Golly. Chechnya. Wotta coincidence.
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Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad vowed there would be no scaling back of its "holy war" against India in Jammu and Kashmir despite a clampdown by Pakistan authorities. "I declare on behalf of my organisation that our jihad will continue in J&K as long as our last fighter and India's last soldier is there," Jaish spokesman Rana Farooq Tahir said. "We are not afraid of war (with India). Rather we want it to take place because Kashmir can only be liberated from India by military means," Tahir said. And there we have it. The bigwigs will stay where it's warm and safe and cozy, 'cause they're too important to lay down their lives. Operations will continue in J & K until the last cheap and easily replaced cannon fodder hoodlum has been expended. And if they're lucky, they'll bring on a major war and the annihilation of millions. Gotta love 'em!
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Indian security forces killed 12 gunmen, including five self-styled commanders of pro-Pak outfits, in separate encounters while losing a paramilitary in Kashmir valley. Militants abducted a forest official and his two guards and shot dead an alleged police informer during the period. Five militants of Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, including two top "commanders", departed the gene pool in an encounter with Army troops at village in the border district of Kupwara. More small fry, cheap and easily replaced.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
